Mark Thompson

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The European Union enjoys
waving the banner of press freedom overseas. However, it is sometimes at a loss
when it has to define its approach to press freedom among its own member
states.

Last year, the EU
tried and failed to convince the Hungarian government to radically amend its
highly controversial media law. The conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban deflected
the pressure by playing on the vagueness of EU treaties and on the fear of Brussels'
intervention in the member states' "internal affairs."

New
York, March 29, 2012--Iranian authorities have imprisoned two additional
journalists as part of their three-year-long crackdown on the press, according
to news reports. In addition, the BBC reported that its Web services had been
targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack, which the broadcaster
believed originated from the Iranian regime.